Computer Vibes
@mileszs.bsky.social
software engineer, hobby collector, unreasonably loud laugher, semi-professional semi-retired washboard player
Gosh can you imagine if you actually did live under a rock right now? That might actually be glorious. Only so many things you can worry about under a rock.
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Gosh can you imagine if you actually did live under a rock right now? That might actually be glorious. Only so many things you can worry about under a rock.
I’m at Rocket League Ballmer’s peak. It’s beautiful.
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’m at Rocket League Ballmer’s peak. It’s beautiful.
I've struggled with the same question my entire life. It consumes me. It drives many of my actions each day. It haunts my dreams. Regardless of my current pursuits, I am contemplating this question:
Which hobby in my vast, unorganized collection of hobbies should I waste time and/or money on next?
Which hobby in my vast, unorganized collection of hobbies should I waste time and/or money on next?
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I've struggled with the same question my entire life. It consumes me. It drives many of my actions each day. It haunts my dreams. Regardless of my current pursuits, I am contemplating this question:
Which hobby in my vast, unorganized collection of hobbies should I waste time and/or money on next?
Which hobby in my vast, unorganized collection of hobbies should I waste time and/or money on next?
I should buy a fog machine. Right? Everyone needs a fog machine. Probably.
October 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I should buy a fog machine. Right? Everyone needs a fog machine. Probably.
Yesterday—after @ar3.me and I discovered we both have swords in our offices—was the first day since sometime in high school I thought, “I need more swords.”
September 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Yesterday—after @ar3.me and I discovered we both have swords in our offices—was the first day since sometime in high school I thought, “I need more swords.”
I love that Tony Hawk posts to /r/oldskaters like he’s just another aging skater dude like anyone else in that community. www.reddit.com/r/OldSkaters...
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August 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I love that Tony Hawk posts to /r/oldskaters like he’s just another aging skater dude like anyone else in that community. www.reddit.com/r/OldSkaters...
Best part of using Claude is that the logo looks like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr’s drawing of a butthole in Breakfast of Champions, so I am reminded of Vonnegut regularly, and then I giggle a bit.
July 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Best part of using Claude is that the logo looks like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr’s drawing of a butthole in Breakfast of Champions, so I am reminded of Vonnegut regularly, and then I giggle a bit.
Overheard this morning after my run:
Kid: “Whose car is that?”
Parent: “[reasonable, serious answer]”
Kid: “[sincerely] Huh. Looks like yours, but… cleaner.”
Savage. The kid was young enough that it seemed like they were very serious, and perhaps thought they had found a teaching moment for mom.
Kid: “Whose car is that?”
Parent: “[reasonable, serious answer]”
Kid: “[sincerely] Huh. Looks like yours, but… cleaner.”
Savage. The kid was young enough that it seemed like they were very serious, and perhaps thought they had found a teaching moment for mom.
July 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Overheard this morning after my run:
Kid: “Whose car is that?”
Parent: “[reasonable, serious answer]”
Kid: “[sincerely] Huh. Looks like yours, but… cleaner.”
Savage. The kid was young enough that it seemed like they were very serious, and perhaps thought they had found a teaching moment for mom.
Kid: “Whose car is that?”
Parent: “[reasonable, serious answer]”
Kid: “[sincerely] Huh. Looks like yours, but… cleaner.”
Savage. The kid was young enough that it seemed like they were very serious, and perhaps thought they had found a teaching moment for mom.
Lobby of a hotel built in Boulder in 1909, and it’s playing Louis Armstrong. It’s a whole vibe.
July 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Lobby of a hotel built in Boulder in 1909, and it’s playing Louis Armstrong. It’s a whole vibe.
I backpacked past the halfway point of the AT! I mean I only started like 40 miles before that sign, but still p cool.
June 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I backpacked past the halfway point of the AT! I mean I only started like 40 miles before that sign, but still p cool.
I should buy a lathe.
a cat in a suit sits at a table reading a newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee
ALT: a cat in a suit sits at a table reading a newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee
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May 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I should buy a lathe.
Ever finish a run and your whole face hurts?
a man in a suit is speaking into a microphone and says what up with that
ALT: a man in a suit is speaking into a microphone and says what up with that
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May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Ever finish a run and your whole face hurts?
I can’t stop thinking about the fact that all but one of the football teams in the top leagues in Germany are owned by Germans (look 50+1 rule), but America tends to be highly represented in the other top football leagues in Europe.
Kudos to Germany. I should watch more Bundesliga.
Kudos to Germany. I should watch more Bundesliga.
May 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I can’t stop thinking about the fact that all but one of the football teams in the top leagues in Germany are owned by Germans (look 50+1 rule), but America tends to be highly represented in the other top football leagues in Europe.
Kudos to Germany. I should watch more Bundesliga.
Kudos to Germany. I should watch more Bundesliga.
I’m embarrassed that I looked up to DHH at one point. I’ve been fortunate enough to organize the Indianapolis Ruby Brigade, attend multiple RubyConfs, and chat with hundreds of Rubyists. DHH doesn’t represent our community any longer.
DHH casually dropping the R word like it’s 1999 really jumps out. It reads as forced, a dog whistle, a little flex.
April 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’m embarrassed that I looked up to DHH at one point. I’ve been fortunate enough to organize the Indianapolis Ruby Brigade, attend multiple RubyConfs, and chat with hundreds of Rubyists. DHH doesn’t represent our community any longer.
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Wild discovery from Wes Winham Winler whose company (Woven) specializes in helping companies screen applicants:
They just "caught" an organized group of "AI fakers:" real engineers who pass interviews, but fake their identity. We saw this before: but now proof that it's at scale:
They just "caught" an organized group of "AI fakers:" real engineers who pass interviews, but fake their identity. We saw this before: but now proof that it's at scale:
April 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Wild discovery from Wes Winham Winler whose company (Woven) specializes in helping companies screen applicants:
They just "caught" an organized group of "AI fakers:" real engineers who pass interviews, but fake their identity. We saw this before: but now proof that it's at scale:
They just "caught" an organized group of "AI fakers:" real engineers who pass interviews, but fake their identity. We saw this before: but now proof that it's at scale:
“Ah yes. It’s been a long time since we’ve talked, Rehashing-everything-I-said-today-brain-loop. Nearly 24 hours in fact! I think. Anyway really neato you’re back. … Did I say neato? Why did I say that? What did they think of me when I said that? Oh god what if someone thinks I said—“
Neato day.
Neato day.
April 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“Ah yes. It’s been a long time since we’ve talked, Rehashing-everything-I-said-today-brain-loop. Nearly 24 hours in fact! I think. Anyway really neato you’re back. … Did I say neato? Why did I say that? What did they think of me when I said that? Oh god what if someone thinks I said—“
Neato day.
Neato day.
I’m amused that a boxed wine brand is just “wine cube”. In this timeline of our simulation, the developers took zero input from product marketing and just started using the thesaurus to name shit. “Eh, wine in a box? Meh. Call it Wine Cube. Oh also make it barely not a cube.”
April 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I’m amused that a boxed wine brand is just “wine cube”. In this timeline of our simulation, the developers took zero input from product marketing and just started using the thesaurus to name shit. “Eh, wine in a box? Meh. Call it Wine Cube. Oh also make it barely not a cube.”
You know a metal drummer is planning to bring it when he’s doing stretches during final sound check.
March 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You know a metal drummer is planning to bring it when he’s doing stretches during final sound check.
I asked ChatGPT to write something for me (and about me) because I was curious as to what it would say given how much history of me it contains. It started with, "Hell yes! I'd love to do that."
I am excited and also really worried about the traps I'm falling into here. Haha.
I am excited and also really worried about the traps I'm falling into here. Haha.
March 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I asked ChatGPT to write something for me (and about me) because I was curious as to what it would say given how much history of me it contains. It started with, "Hell yes! I'd love to do that."
I am excited and also really worried about the traps I'm falling into here. Haha.
I am excited and also really worried about the traps I'm falling into here. Haha.
It’s been a while, but I’m near Ballmer’s Peak for Rocket League. Wine is wonderful.
Don’t ask me about it tomorrow.
Don’t ask me about it tomorrow.
March 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It’s been a while, but I’m near Ballmer’s Peak for Rocket League. Wine is wonderful.
Don’t ask me about it tomorrow.
Don’t ask me about it tomorrow.
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Couldn't agree more
I just gave a talk where I showed my version of org health (encourage others to do the same), where teams who don't fight at all are at the lowest end of org health- false harmony just leaves issues to simmer
I just gave a talk where I showed my version of org health (encourage others to do the same), where teams who don't fight at all are at the lowest end of org health- false harmony just leaves issues to simmer
March 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Couldn't agree more
I just gave a talk where I showed my version of org health (encourage others to do the same), where teams who don't fight at all are at the lowest end of org health- false harmony just leaves issues to simmer
I just gave a talk where I showed my version of org health (encourage others to do the same), where teams who don't fight at all are at the lowest end of org health- false harmony just leaves issues to simmer
Let's reinvent Dashboard Confessionals as a band constantly lamenting their various business metrics instead of their love lives.
February 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Let's reinvent Dashboard Confessionals as a band constantly lamenting their various business metrics instead of their love lives.
I appreciate an artist who restrains themselves to only a couple guest stars in their halftime show. I’m over the “invite everyone one might word associate with you”.
A diss track at the Super Bowl with the entire crowd singing one of the main disses? Wild! KC isn’t the biggest loser tonight.
A diss track at the Super Bowl with the entire crowd singing one of the main disses? Wild! KC isn’t the biggest loser tonight.
February 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I appreciate an artist who restrains themselves to only a couple guest stars in their halftime show. I’m over the “invite everyone one might word associate with you”.
A diss track at the Super Bowl with the entire crowd singing one of the main disses? Wild! KC isn’t the biggest loser tonight.
A diss track at the Super Bowl with the entire crowd singing one of the main disses? Wild! KC isn’t the biggest loser tonight.
Bad news: Only 48 weeks left in 2025.
If you already have 40+ projects you were hoping to get done, you gotta be efficient. If you were going to read 50 books and you've only read a couple so far, you're behind.
If you were planning to just bob and weave in 2025, you're actually in p good shape.
If you already have 40+ projects you were hoping to get done, you gotta be efficient. If you were going to read 50 books and you've only read a couple so far, you're behind.
If you were planning to just bob and weave in 2025, you're actually in p good shape.
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Bad news: Only 48 weeks left in 2025.
If you already have 40+ projects you were hoping to get done, you gotta be efficient. If you were going to read 50 books and you've only read a couple so far, you're behind.
If you were planning to just bob and weave in 2025, you're actually in p good shape.
If you already have 40+ projects you were hoping to get done, you gotta be efficient. If you were going to read 50 books and you've only read a couple so far, you're behind.
If you were planning to just bob and weave in 2025, you're actually in p good shape.
Seeing the folks cleverly thwarting TikTok censorship reminds me: Read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Then read the other book set in that world (which is basically our world with some minor events playing out differently). Then consider reading all of Cory Doctorow’s books.
January 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Seeing the folks cleverly thwarting TikTok censorship reminds me: Read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Then read the other book set in that world (which is basically our world with some minor events playing out differently). Then consider reading all of Cory Doctorow’s books.